CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Sep 1, 2011 | Music

Kris Delmhorst Cars (Signature Sounds) Were The Cars an influential band, or symbolic of the vacuity of the post-punk, pre-grunge early 1980s? Should tribute albums be sweet-voiced faithful renditions, or raw, radical revamps? I’m a big Kris Delmhorst fan, but...
CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Sep 1, 2011 | Music

Nucular AminalsNucular Aminals(K) With a sound described as “what would happen if you woke up in the morning and squeezed your tube of toothpaste, but a thick glob of sunshine came shooting out instead of minty freshness,” the self-titled debut by this...
Patton Pending

Patton Pending

by | Sep 1, 2011 | Music

Many is the tune inspired by little more than an image, emotion or moment in time that was forever etched into its creator’s noggin. When it comes to the curious case of journeyman musician Brandon Patton (brandonpatton.com) and the title track for his seventh...

The Lies Porn Tells Us

by | Sep 1, 2011 | Leisure, The V-Spot

Nobody likes a liar. This is probably why many people hate porn—though rare, truthful porn does exist. As I’ve said before in a past column (“Feminist Porn,” May 5, 2011), there is good, positive porn to be had. You just have to know how to...
Cinemadope: Double Trouble

Cinemadope: Double Trouble

by | Sep 1, 2011 | Film

Live long enough, and the phrase “the end of an era” begins to look less and less like an empty clich? and more like something one should really reserve for the right occasion. It’s the grandmother’s silver of aphorisms, kept tucked away until...